Abstract

After the first rocket launches in the late 1950s, it became clear that space objects, both at launch and on return to the Earth, can pose a danger to people, the environment, and property. It is natural that with the expansion of the national space programs across the globe in the early 1960s increasing the number of rocket launches, cases of space objects falling onto Earth also became more frequent. The United Nations responded to the problem by adopting the Convention on International Liability for Damage Caused by Space Objects in 1963. The Convention was developed in a single ...